Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Burtonstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burtonstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62296, -6.51275
- SMR number
- ME032-064----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the tip of a slight E-W spur. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 50m) defined by a distinct fosse (Wth c. 2-5m) is visible only on an OSI aerial image (1995). A second fosse c. 5m inside the outer is visible N-E and what might be a rectangular annexe (dims c. 40m NW-SE; c. 27m E-W) defined by a single fosse is attached at SE. The enclosure was first reported by Colin Byrne.
See the attached enhanced view from OSI images (1995)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 April 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.